08 September 2010

Japan gets 10 institutions in the QS World University Rankings Results for 2010

Japan gets 10 institutions in the QS World University Rankings Results for 2010

This year it is the 'THES-less' QS rankings. THES is pursuing a different methdology with a different partner.

The results for Japan are about the same as last year with a bit of 'slippage' down in the rankings for most all the institutions. Japan does not rate any in the top ten or top twenty. Todai and Kyodai are neck-and-neck in the top 30 now. Waseda is the only private university to make the top 200.

While we can not say conclusively that Japan's university reforms of the last two decades CAUSED the deterioration of its institutions' rankings, we can say they obviously didn't help (unless someone wants to make the forlorn argument that the reforms ameliorated the deterioration somewhat).

Top 30, which includes TWO universities from Japan (Toudai and Kyoudai):

1 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
2 Harvard University United States
3 Yale University United States
4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
6 University of Oxford United Kingdom
7 Imperial College London United Kingdom
8 University of Chicago United States
9 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
10 Princeton University United States
11 Columbia University United States
12 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States
13 Stanford University United States
14 Duke University United States
15 University of Michigan United States
16 Cornell University United States
17 Johns Hopkins University United States
18 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) A* Switzerland
19 McGill University Canada
20 Australian National University (ANU) A* Australia
21 King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom
22 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
23 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong
24 University of Tokyo, The Japan
25 Kyoto University Japan
26 Northwestern University United States
27 University of Bristol United Kingdom
28 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States
29 University of Toronto Canada
30 University of Manchester United Kingdom